Parallel park +1.8m?
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From: ChelseaTractorMan on 4 Dec 2009 12:03 On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:52:45 GMT, Harry Bloomfield <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >> for the Tractor when I cannot see the other car in the rear window? >> :-) > >Yes, if the method involves continuing to reverse until you have pushed >the other car far enough to get in :-) isn't that how you park a 4x4? :-) -- Mike. .. . Gone beyond the ultimate driving machine.
From: Silk on 4 Dec 2009 13:03 On 04/12/2009 08:38, Ray Keattch wrote: > Harry Bloomfield wrote: >> Ray Keattch used his keyboard to write : >>> No, not exactly a foot - maybe 13 inches as I haven't measured it. >>> Next to the car it looked about a foot either end. >> >> Oh come on Ray - a foot, 13 inches, 15 to 17 inches - which is it? >> > > I don't give a toss down to the inch. From looking at the car it looks > around a foot at either end - a small distance, not a metre, not a long > distance, not 4 inches. It's no good just guessing. People are notoriously unreliable at guessing these kinds of things. You'll probably find your one foot is more like 3 feet.
From: Harry Bloomfield on 4 Dec 2009 13:49 ChelseaTractorMan explained : > isn't that how you park a 4x4? :-) > > -- No, I don't actually have one. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Ray Keattch on 4 Dec 2009 15:53 Silk wrote: > On 04/12/2009 08:38, Ray Keattch wrote: >> Harry Bloomfield wrote: >>> Ray Keattch used his keyboard to write : >>>> No, not exactly a foot - maybe 13 inches as I haven't measured it. >>>> Next to the car it looked about a foot either end. >>> >>> Oh come on Ray - a foot, 13 inches, 15 to 17 inches - which is it? >>> >> >> I don't give a toss down to the inch. From looking at the car it looks >> around a foot at either end - a small distance, not a metre, not a long >> distance, not 4 inches. > > It's no good just guessing. People are notoriously unreliable at > guessing these kinds of things. You'll probably find your one foot is > more like 3 feet. Ok, so if the total distance is three feet, that would be one and a half feet either end - hardly miles out ;-) -- MrBitsy
From: Harry Bloomfield on 4 Dec 2009 16:19
Ray Keattch has brought this to us : > Ok, so if the total distance is three feet, that would be one and a half feet > either end - hardly miles out ;-) It makes a lot of difference as in go, no go! -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk |